{"id":44130,"date":"2015-03-06T01:35:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44130"},"modified":"2015-03-06T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T17:35:02","slug":"the-thousand-day-access-request-long-delays-must-be-justified-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/06\/the-thousand-day-access-request-long-delays-must-be-justified-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"The thousand day access request: long delays must be justified, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_156735698.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44173\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_156735698.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_156735698\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_156735698.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_156735698-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_156735698-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The Federal Court of Appeal has sent a stern message to government departments: you can&#8217;t just make up any old deadline for responding to requests under the Access to Information Act.<\/p>\n<p>The case involved the Department of National Defence, which in 2011 told someone seeking records on the sale of military assets that it would take a staggering 1,100 days &#8211;more than three years &#8212; to meet the request.<\/p>\n<p>The information commissioner wound up taking the department to Federal Court for a review of the time extension, and the documents were delivered a month before the hearing in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Court judge eventually ruled that time extensions, which are permitted under the Access to Information Act, should not be subject to review, but the appeal court disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Marc Noel said timely access to documents is a central part of the right of access, and that viewing all time extensions as permissible is tantamount to not having any limits at all.<\/p>\n<p>Noel said government institutions must make serious efforts to figure out how long it will honestly take to produce records, and that such calculations have to be rigorous and logical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The Federal Court of Appeal has sent a stern message to government departments: you can&#8217;t just make up &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":44173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}